Aprium blossoms - Apriums are a hybrid of plums and apricots - near Fresno, California

map of Mojave NP

Granite Mountains in the Mojave

Photo of a tiny new tree growing in a dead tree

A chair sits below the Tetons

Western Sandpipers

Mount Rushmore

Shanti Almanza, a student at Desert Hot Springs School

Lichen in Joshua Tree National Park

Boots and sky in Utah

Bottled water

Catch Composition of Chinook Salmon

BLM Shield

Mojave Preserve

This intense fire was set by Forest Service fire managers over the objection of local managers and residents. It burned Old Growth and created accelerated erosion but did nothing to stop the wildfire burning miles away.

Michael Branch walking

Them! fake movie poster

Them! fake movie poster

Mt Heyburn

The scenic Mesquite Mountains rise above the Ivanpah Valley

Ivanpah Cactus

Ivanpah Bulldozer

Clouds in the Pacific Northwest

Grizzly Bear in Montana

Pacific Decadal Oscillation

Wildlife rehabilitator Steve Kroschel with Jasper, a wolverine featured in the film

Wolverine biologist Jeff Copeland
is interviewed at work in Glacier National Park for 'Wolverine:
Chasing the Phantom'

Firehole river

Depuys Spring Creek Fall Colors

mailbox

Map of Earned Income Tax Credit

outside Taos

beaver

Lisa Murkowski

Bull Elk

power line

Desert cathedral

cellphone and laptop

high speed rail map

Shale gas plays

Shale gas plays

pipeline map

moon

Oregon and fish farming

winter bison

Wolverine F28, in Glacier National Park

Trail blocked by tumbleweeds

wolverine in field

Mountain goats

Water for Tomorrow cover

Klamath river

Hope Mine Tailings

The launching hill

NPS fees chart

NPS fees chart

Utah's Red Rock Country

Whitewater rafting in Colorado's Gunnison National Forest

Horse Chariot in Jackson, Wyo.

In the West folks like to farm right down to the streambanks. Many Ag folks despise stream buffers

Western ranchers like to graze their animals not just down to the streambanks but in the dewatered streambeds as well. This pic is from NW California's Scott River Valley.